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When we look at the relationship between Islamic Iran and the atheistic Soviet Union, and the new development of friendship on the political and economic levels, we see that it is possible to return to a relationship between the U.S. and Iran. Relationships are subject to the real interests of the people and not to personal relationships...
...world condemned the Vietnamese attack on Cambodia in 1978 as an act of aggression. But whatever Hanoi's predatory motives, the invasion had one positive consequence: it ended the genocidal rule of the Khmer Rouge and drove them into the jungle. There they lurk today, hoping to return to power in the new round of fighting that has become almost inevitable since an international peace conference broke down in Paris in August...
After his return to the U.S. in 1987, Willwerth talked frequently with reporter-researcher Lois Gilman, who is the author of The Adoption Resource Book, an information guide for those setting out to adopt a child. Gilman devoted weeks of work to the cover package, but in effect she began her personal research in 1979 when she and her husband Ernest adopted Seth, an infant from Chile, then Eve from South Korea in 1981. "We wanted this week's story to convey how much the dynamics of adoption are changing," Gilman says. "Our whole notion...
...York City's office of adoption services. "But crack mothers cannot." And even as new cases cascade into the child-welfare system, the number of foster parents has been declining. With more women working, fewer are home to take in children. Some adoption officials foresee an eventual return to the system of warehousing children in orphanages...
...even when adoptive parents come forward, the foster-care and adoptive system can keep the children tantalizingly out of reach. Designed to be a short-term arrangement ending in either adoption or the child's return to a competent parent, foster care has become a kind of indeterminate sentence. Only about half of all foster children return home; many of the rest are suspended in a legal limbo by parents who make little effort to regain their children but refuse to relinquish them fully. Although federal law mandates that a child whose mother shows no inclination to plan...